Thank you to everyone who attended our Insights event. If you couldn't make it, thank you for your interest in the event and we hope to see you next time.
Money in account – check; credit card in front of me – check; computer up and running – check; internet connection working – check; relevant website on my browser – check. I think I’m ready to make a couple of dozen online donations to a couple of dozen different charities.
Last month I opened my first pay check of the new fiscal year and it raised a few questions for me. It showed that the amount of money due to arrive in my bank account has gone up because the tax-free allowance has increased from £8,101 to £9,440.
Written by Jonathan Taylor as part of the Clore Social Leadership Programme we've been supporting, this report looks at the role of charity directors and whether they can achieve a balance between leadership responsibilities and participating in their senior team. It summarises the views of 12 individuals, half of whom are ex-financial directors and half of whom are current senior members of charity management teams.
A remark I made about impact reports being ‘turgid, dull and deeply boring’ hit the sector headlines recently. I was even mad enough to suggest that we should replace impact reports with tweets.
Getting a reference from a candidate for a job is almost as deeply engrained in charity sector thinking as equal opportunities. Yet the value to the recruiting organisation is deeply questionable.
Charity websites and offices are the last resort for people needing support and advice"Far from being people’s first port of call, it looks like charities could be the last.
Before this, I wrote a piece on why it's important to blog. Although I meant it as a few quick notes, it actually turned into a blog of its own and inexplicably mentioned sky diving.
Between February 2011 and February 2013, we had a PAYE audit at nfpSynergy. If I live to be 100, I think it will still rank as one of the most painful, expensive, exasperating and protracted audits I experience.
